156 BALFOUR—NEW SPECIES OF PRIMULA. 
foveolata. Scapus robustus ad 4 dm. altus nigro-viridis um- 
bellam terminalem plurifloram (ad 12) et verticillos inferos 
3-4 inter se remotos gerens; bracteae ad 2.5 cm. longae laete 
virides elongato-lanceolatae acuminatae vel ligulatae apice 
nonnunquam dentatae; pedicelli validi mox deflexi bracteis 
breviores. Calyx tubuloso-campanulatus ad 7.5 mm. longus 
5-costatus costis laete viridibus intervallis pallidis pergamenta- 
ceis ad medium fissus lobis triangulari-acuminatis hydathodo 
corneo terminatis. Corollae aureae tubus ad 1.2 cm. longus 
floris longistyli infundibularis, brevistyli cylindricus angustior, 
annulatus intus infra stamina membranaceus transverse 
rugosus supra crassior granuloso-puberulus, limbus granuloso- 
puberulus, lobi late obcordati vel subrotundati ad 8 mm. diam. 
emarginati. Stamina floris brevistyli antheris sub annulum 
insertis, longistyli basim tubi corollini versus imserta calyce 
inclusa et strumis corollinis annulatim separata. Ovarium 
ovoideum; stylus brevis calyce brevior, longus exsertus ; 
stigma globosum. 
Ex affinitate P. helodoxae, Balf. fil. sed farinae inopia, foltis 
membranaceis, pedicellis nutantibus, calyce ad medium fisso 
- differt 
o Yunnan. Marshes near Tengyueh. Alt. 4000-5000 ft. 
12th April 1913. Just coming into flower.” F. K. Ward. 
No. 211. 
This species of Candelabra Primula sent by Kingdon Ward, 
coming from the same general area as P. helodoxa, Balf. fil., 
which in appearance it recalls, has more than ordinary interest 
on account of the variability that is shown by the latter species. 
P. chrysochlora, Balf. fil. et Ward is a plant of very wet places, 
and its leaves are thin and membranous, short and broad—more 
so than in any form of P. helodoxa, Balf. fil..—and they make 
a spreading rosette. There is no trace of the golden meal so 
prominent on the inflorescence of P. helodoxa, Balf. fil. The 
bracts and calyx are green, wonderfully bright in a dried 
specimen. The bracts are long, exceeding the pedicels, and have 
a general strap form tapering mostly to the point, but some- 
times not diminishing in width, and then having a toothed 
apex. The absence of the meal from the calyx allows the 
sepaline ridges to show up as green bands in the middle of each 
of which runs the delicate mid-vein, and the intervals between 
the bands are paler with a parchment texture. The whole 
calyx we may call vittate, and it is very different from the 
calyx in P. helodoxa, Balf. fil. The inner parts of the flower 
are not markedly different from those of P. helodoxa. 
One asks, Can this be a microform of P. helodoxa, Balf. fil. ? 
Its characters as seen in the solitary sheet of specimens suffice 
